"Steensig of gbtimes was enthusiastic towards the film despite pointing out of Moominpappa's painful hangover and Moomintroll's bitter jealousy, but she notes after that ""These are phenomena that adults will recognize but most children will not, and they are shown in a way that will not make young kids wonder about things they are not ready for."" As of October 26, 2014, ""Moomins on the Riviera"" grossed $1,381,862 in Finland. The film first earned $337,391 (28,500 viewers) on its first weekend, surpassing ""The Grump"", and became the highest-grossing film during its first two weekends in Finland. In an October 2014"
"The Moomins (TV series) The Moomins (Polish: ""Opowiadania Muminków"", German: ""Die Mumins"") is a stop motion animated children's television series based on the Tove Jansson's Moomin series of books which was produced by Se-ma-for and Jupiter Film between 1977 and 1982 for Polish, Austrian and German television. The series was later sold to other countries including the UK. The British version was adapted by Anne Wood at FilmFair and broadcast in the UK. Series 1 was first shown on Monday 24 January 1983 at 4:15 pm and series 2 on Monday 7 January 1985 at 4.15pm on CITV, and series"
"particularly the Nordic countries. In Finland, the strip started on 21 April 1955 in ""Ilta-Sanomat"", the largest afternoon newspaper in the country. In the same year, the strip also started in the Swedish-language local newspapers ""Västra Nyland"" and ""Vasabladet"", and in 1957 in ""Åbo Underrättelser"". Most newspapers publishing the Moomin comic strip were European, but it was also published in more distant places. In North America, it was finally sold to the Canadian ""Toronto Daily Star"", but in the United States, no newspaper worthy of note accepted it on its pages. The strip was divided into episodes, each with distinct"
"comic strip being released between 1945 and 1993. The Moomins have since been the basis for numerous television series, films and even a theme park called Moomin World in Naantali, Finland. The Moomin stories concern several eccentric and oddly-shaped characters, some of whom are related to each other. The central family consists of Moominpappa, Moominmamma and Moomintroll. Other characters, such as Hemulens, Sniff, the Snork Maiden, Snufkin and Little My are accepted into or attach themselves to the family group from time to time, generally living separate lives in the surrounding Moominvalley, where the series is set. It is in"
"in 1973, a 1980 opera, and, in 2009, a live-action feature film adaptation directed by Spike Jonze. By 2008 it had sold over 19 million copies worldwide. American illustrator and author Gyo Fujikawa created more than 50 books between 1963 and 1990. Her work has been translated into 17 languages and published in 22 countries. Her most popular books, ""Babies"" and ""Baby Animals"", have sold over 1.7 million copies in the U.S. Fujikawa is recognized for being the earliest mainstream illustrator of picture books to include children of many races in her work. Most of the Moomin books by Finnish"
"in a list of top 50 children's TV by The Times. Excerpts from the series have been shown at film festivals in the UK and Japan. A Region 2 DVD boxset was released in 2004, in both English and German editions (both versions manufactured in Austria). Single DVD releases are also available, which contain English and German episodes. The German episodes have English subtitles and the English episodes have German subtitles. The Moomins (TV series) The Moomins (Polish: ""Opowiadania Muminków"", German: ""Die Mumins"") is a stop motion animated children's television series based on the Tove Jansson's Moomin series of books"
"other appreciated books; most of them were filmed, some with good results that have led to them being continuously rerun on Swedish television. One of the few fantasy writers in Swedish literature was Tove Jansson (1914–2001), who wrote her stories of the Moomins in nine books and four picture books between 1946 and 1993. Jansson was from Finland's Swedish-speaking minority, and wrote in Swedish. The Moomins are trolls that live in an economically and politically independent state, without any material necessities. Perhaps this explains the vast popularity the Moomins have enjoyed in many different countries. The Moomin books have been"
"Teater. In the early 1950s, Jansson collaborated on Moomin-themed children's plays with Vivica Bandler. By 1958, Jansson began to become directly involved in theater as Lilla Teater produced ""Troll i kulisserna"" (""Troll in the wings""), a Moomin play with lyrics by Jansson and music composed by Erna Tauro. The production was a success, and later performances were held in Sweden and Norway, including recently at the Malmö Opera and Music Theatre in 2011. Moomin World (""Muumimaailma"" in Finnish, ""Muminvärlden"" in Swedish) is the Moomin Theme Park especially for children. Moomin World is located on the island of Kailo beside the"
"Korea and 3 stores in Thailand. As of January 2018, there are 15 themed MOOMIN CAFES around the world - Finland, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan - allowing diners to immerse themselves in the Moomin world. Diners can enjoy Moomin-inspired meals sitting at tables with larger-than-life plush versions of Moomin characters. The Moomin Boom (""muumibuumi"" in Finnish) started in the 1990s, when Dennis Livson and Lars Jansson produced a 104-part animation series in Japan named ""Tales From Moominvalley"", which was followed by a full-length movie ""Comet in Moominland"". Moomin books had always been steady bestsellers in Finland,"
"production became more the effort of her father, Jansson became an active help in management of the visual aspects of ""Moomin"" as an intellectual property. In 1979, Lars Jansson founded the limited liability company, Oy Moomin Characters, Ltd, now headed by Christer Timgren. According to a 2004 article in the Finnish business magazine ""Talouselämä"", Oy Moomin Characters, Ltd is Finland's most cost-effective business, with some 80 Moomin licences in Finland and almost 300 abroad. It has been listed as among the top Creative Export Companies of Finland in 2007. Since 1993, Jansson, together with her father, has managed the production"
"among these are the pinscreen animation films of Jacques Drouin, made with the original pinscreen donated by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker. Italian stop-motion films include ""Quaq Quao"" (1978), by Francesco Misseri, which was stop motion with origami, ""The Red and the Blue"" and the clay animation kittens ""Mio and Mao"". Other European productions included a stop-motion-animated series of Tove Jansson's ""The Moomins"" (from 1979, often referred to as ""The Fuzzy Felt Moomins""), produced by Film Polski and Jupiter Films. One of the main British Animation teams, John Hardwick and Bob Bura, were the main animators in many early British"
"is heavily faithful to the original comic strip story, while it features some elements from other comic strip stories and adds several characters who didn't appear in the original story to the film such as Little My and Snufkin. Moomin comic strips Moomin ( or '; ) is a comic strip created by Tove Jansson, and followed up by Lars Jansson, featuring their Moomin family of characters. The first comic strip, entitled ""Mumintrollet och jordens undergång"" (""Moomintroll and The End of The World"") was a short-lived project for the children's section of the Finland-Swedish leftist newspaper ""Ny Tid"". It was"
"Moomin comic strips Moomin ( or '; ) is a comic strip created by Tove Jansson, and followed up by Lars Jansson, featuring their Moomin family of characters. The first comic strip, entitled ""Mumintrollet och jordens undergång"" (""Moomintroll and The End of The World"") was a short-lived project for the children's section of the Finland-Swedish leftist newspaper ""Ny Tid"". It was written between 1947 and 1948, at the request of the editor, a friend of Jansson's, Atos Wirtanen. The series was published with two new strips weekly, and was mainly an adaptation of ""Comet in Moominland"". The series has been"
"of the Moomins has been made into television series on many occasions by various groups, the most recent of which is a Japanese–Dutch collaboration, that has also produced a feature-length film. However, there are also two Soviet serials, puppet animation ""Mumi-troll"" (""Moomintroll"") and cutout animation ""Shlyapa Volshebnika"" (""Magician's Hat"") of three parts each, and the Polish–Austrian puppet animation TV series, ""The Moomins"", which was broadcast and became popular in an edited form in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. The two newest feature films re-use the footage of the Polish-Austrian series: ""Moomin and Midsummer Madness"" had its release in 2008,"
"available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Jansson received the writing award in 1966. Jansson's books, originally written in Swedish, have been translated into 45 languages. After the ""Kalevala"" and books by Mika Waltari, they are the most widely translated works of Finnish literature. The Moomin Museum in Tampere displays much of Jansson's work on the Moomins. There is also a Moomin theme park named Moomin World in Naantali. Tove Jansson was selected as the main motif in the 2004 minting of a Finnish commemorative coin, the €10 Tove Jansson and Finnish Children's Culture commemorative coin. The obverse"
"shows the linen room (laundry room), kitchen, and bedrooms in great detail. In the United Kingdom, the ""Uppark Baby-house"" (ca. 1730) is on exhibit at Uppark, West Sussex, owned by The National Trust. The ""Nostell Priory Baby-house"" (ca. 1730) is on exhibit at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, also owned by The National Trust. ""The Tate House"" (1760) is on exhibit in the Museum of Childhood in London, England. In Tampere in Finland, the Moomin Museum displays the ""Moomin house"", a dollhouse created around the Moomin characters of Tove Jansson. The house was built by Jansson, Tuulikki Pietilä and Pentti Eistola and"
"reprinted in book form under the name ""Jorden går under"" (""The World is Ending"") by the newspaper. The main series of Moomin comic strips were made directly for the British market: they were spread by the British Associated Newspapers comic strip syndicate and the original publisher was the ""Evening News"" newspaper. The series originally appeared in newspapers from 1954 to 1975. At its peak, ""Moomin"" appeared in over 40 countries and about 120 papers, with over 20 million readers daily, making it the most successful Finnish comic strip ever published. Tove and Lars Jansson received the Finnish Comic Strip Association's"
"after Tove had become an adult, the two often traveled together, and during her final years Signe also lived with Tove part-time. Jansson is principally known as the author of the Moomin books. Jansson created the Moomins, a family of trolls who are white, round and smooth in appearance, with large snouts that make them vaguely resemble hippopotamuses. The first Moomin book, ""The Moomins and the Great Flood"", was written in 1945. Although the primary characters are Moominmamma and Moomintroll, most of the principal characters of later stories were only introduced in the next book, so ""The Moomins and the"
"Moomin World Moomin World (, ) is a theme park based on the Moomin books by Tove Jansson. It was designed by Dennis Livson, and located on the island of Kailo next to the old town of Naantali, in Southwest Finland. The blueberry-coloured Moomin House is the main attraction of the park, where guests are allowed to go to all five storeys. Hemulen's house is located next to the Moomin House. It is also possible to go to, for example, Moominmamma's kitchen, the fire station, Snufkin's camp, Moominpappa's boat. Visitors can also meet Moomin characters around the park or the"
"Moomin Museum Moomin Museum (Swedish: Muminmuseet, Finnish: Muumimuseo, formerly called Moominvalley) is situated in the city of Tampere, Finland. Shown at the Moomin Museum are illustrations made by Tove Jansson (the creator of Moomins), 40 miniatures, tableaux about Moomin events and a small (2.5 metres high) Moomin House. There is a total of about 2,000 exhibits on display. Also shown is the original Moomin Valley multimedia. It also has the Moomin Shop which sells gift items and Moomin Library which have Moomin books in many languages. The blue five-storey miniature Moominhouse was built by Tuulikki Pietilä, Pentti Eistola and Tove"
"sort of about timeless stuff... Everybody's allowed to be as eccentric as they are. And I think maybe when I was reading this for my kids when I'm grown up, I actually noticed some sort of anti-authority aspect in it... and there's no hierarchy between the characters. They're all equal. I like that a lot."" She also praised the Moomins creator Jansson, and revealed that at the night of the movie premiere in Finland she was invited to the island 2 hours by sea from Helsinki, where Tove Jansson had lived. ""It was basically like a rock with one house"
"birth. In the United Kingdom, the film made its premiere on 11 October 2014 at BFI London Film Festival and it had a wider theatrical release on 22 May 2015. The Moomins, along with Little My and Snorkmaiden go on a sea journey that, after storms and desert island dangers, leads the family to the Riviera, the place that takes their unity to the test. Additional roles from the English version of the film are played by Dominic Frisby, who also co-directed the English dialogue, Ian Conningham, Alison O’Donnell, Bernard Alane, Bruno Magnes, Andy Turvey, Kris Gummerus, Glyn Welden Banks,"
"Finn Family Moomintroll Finn Family Moomintroll (original Swedish title ""Trollkarlens hatt"", ‘The Magician's Hat’; US edition ""The Happy Moomins"") is the third in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomins books, published in Swedish in 1948 and translated to English in 1950. It owes its title in translation to the fact that it was the first Moomin book to be published in English, and was actually marketed as the first in the series until the 1980s. The 1961 English publication features a foreword ""by Moominmamma"", where she explains the nature of Moomins for fear that English children may not have heard"
"later donated to the town of Tampere. The museum also contains dozens of roomboxes with Moomin characters, all made by Tuulikki Pietilä. The Dollhouse Museum () in Basel, Switzerland is the largest museum of its kind in Europe. Dollhouse A dollhouse or doll's house is a toy home made in miniature. For the last century, dollhouses have primarily been the domain of children but their collection and crafting is also a hobby for many adults. The term ""dollhouse"" is used commonly in the United States and Canada. In the UK (United Kingdom) the term ""dolls' house"" or ""dollshouse"" is used."
"featured on a Finnish stamp set. In 2014 the City of Helsinki honored Jansson by renaming a park in Katajanokka as Tove Jansson's Park (, ). The park is located near Jansson's childhood home. In March 2014, the Ateneum Art Museum opened a major centenary exhibition showcasing Jansson's works as an artist, an illustrator, a political caricaturist and the creator of the Moomins. The exhibition drew nearly 300,000 visitors in six months. After Helsinki the exhibition embarked on a tour in Japan to visit five Japanese museums. In 2012, the BBC broadcast a one-hour documentary on Jansson, ""Moominland Tales: The"
"in June 2017. Moomin Museum Moomin Museum (Swedish: Muminmuseet, Finnish: Muumimuseo, formerly called Moominvalley) is situated in the city of Tampere, Finland. Shown at the Moomin Museum are illustrations made by Tove Jansson (the creator of Moomins), 40 miniatures, tableaux about Moomin events and a small (2.5 metres high) Moomin House. There is a total of about 2,000 exhibits on display. Also shown is the original Moomin Valley multimedia. It also has the Moomin Shop which sells gift items and Moomin Library which have Moomin books in many languages. The blue five-storey miniature Moominhouse was built by Tuulikki Pietilä, Pentti"
"director Xavier Picard, who was interested to adapt comic strips to the big screen. They contacted Picard and the film started production in France in 2010. The film is animated traditionally, hand drawn animation with a reduced color scale for the backgrounds in order to maintain continuity with the black-and-white comic strips. Pictak Cie worked on developing the visuals of the film. Chinese Sandman Animation Studio did 120,000 drawings for animation and Handle Productions produced the film. The film marks the feature film directorial debut of Xavier Picard. Picard was not aware of the Moomin characters before he discovered them"
"Moomin mugs Moomin mugs are a series of collectible mugs with Moomin characters, manufactured by the Finnish ceramics brand Arabia. The mugs are designed by Tove Slotte, with the images based on original drawings by cartoonists Tove and Lars Jansson. The mug itself is a ceramics mug of the series ""Teema"", designed by Kaj Franck in the late 1970s. The first Moomin tableware was produced by Arabia in the 1950s, and the current Moomin mugs were introduced in 1990. Three to five different new mugs are put on the market annually, including limited edition items for summer and Christmas seasons."
"""Puupää-hattu"" award in 1980. In the 1990s, a comic book version of Moomin was produced in Scandinavia after Dennis Livson and Lars Jansson's ""Moomin"" animated series was shown on television. The Janssons had no involvement in these comic books. However, in the wake of the comic books success, two new Moomin comic strips were launched under the artistic and content oversight of Lars and his daughter, Sophia Jansson-Zambra. Sophia now provides sole oversight for the strips. The original comic strip stories made by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson has had adaptations including ""Moomin"" (1990) anime series and the 2014 animated"
"are, they don't have to conform. Reading to my children I actually noticed some kind of anti-authority aspect in it - there's no hierarchy between the characters, they are all equal. I like that a lot."" Moomins and the Comet Chase Moomins and the Comet Chase is a 2010 3D stop motion animated fantasy adventure comedy family film compiled from the ""Comet in Moominland""-based episodes of the 1977–1982 ""The Moomins"" TV series animated at Se-ma-for in Poland, restored and re-soundtracked with multiple voice actors replacing the single narrator. It is the second such Moomin film produced by Finnish children's film"
"Comet in Moominland Comet in Moominland (Swedish: ""Kometjakten"" / ""Mumintrollet på kometjakt"" / ""Kometen kommer"") is the second in Finnish author Tove Jansson's series of Moomin books. Published in 1946, it marks the first appearance of several main characters, such as Snufkin and the Snork Maiden. The English translation, published in 1951, is a translation of the first version of Jansson's book, which she was later to revise. The revised version was published in 1968. It contains a number of minor differences; for instance, the Silk Monkey character is changed to a kitten. The story begins a few weeks after"
"musical interpretations of the Moomins have been made for the nineties anime, by Pierre Kartner, with translated versions being made including in Poland and the Nordic countries. Their lyrics, however, often contain simple slogans and the music is written in a children's pop music style and contrast sharply with the original Moomin novels and Jansson's pictorial and descriptive, yet rhyming lyricism, as well as Erna Tauro's Scandinavian-style songs (""visor""), which are occasionally influenced by Kurt Weill. A Moomin opera was written in 1974 by the Finnish composer Ilkka Kuusisto; Jansson designed the costumes. Musicscapes from Moominvalley is a four-part work"
"all over Europe, especially in the neighboring countries of Belgium and France (and including Italy, despite that country having had a rich and thriving comics culture of its own), solidifying the position of the Franco-Belgian comic as the preeminent force on the European comics scene, Great Britain excepted. The greatest and most enduring success however was mainly for some series started in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s (including ""Lucky Luke"", ""The Smurfs"", and ""Asterix""), and the even older ""Adventures of Tintin"", while many more recent series have not made a significant commercial impact outside mainland Europe and those overseas territories"